There is also an expansion module slot.
I wonder if that slot is standard PCIe or special??. It appears mechanically to be 8x. PCIe. I would like to slap a LSI SAS card(8xPCIe) in the chassis…I might experiment with an PCIe flexible riser cable to see if it is PCIe. I would like to find an Lanner 8800 expansion module...I see that the Sandy Bridge/Ivy version of the chassis uses the 8800 module as well.

Just a followup. The expansion "Golden fingers" slot is indeed PCIe8x i have the LSI SAS card bios on bootup now. Playing with the fan control to tame the beast. 15,000rpm fans. Thermally controlling drops to only 7,500rpm. So pvwm is borked. Has value for 0-255 but description is in temperature(c or f ?). Anything outside of 40-80 sends the fan to full speed. Defiantly in need of a fan downgrade/upgrade… Fat chance of a bios upgrade as its OEM i bet...Vyatta is now brocade and the project is dead.

Thanks, would have done that already but Lanner requires registration for downloads. I guess it is worth it -before throwing money at the problem. It appears these use an early bios version.
Fan section had both System Fan and CPU Fan settings and -Thermal Cruise Mode- or -Manual Mode- for fans and manual mode had no settings and ran 15K as well as the broken Thermal Cruise Mode which halved the speed to 8000K but no adjustability as i have seen on other 4 wire fans.

Side note. Tried unsuccessfully to run a MiniPCI wireless-N card in this box on beta. All kinds of brands Mikrotik, Compex, Alpha, TPLink and all were actually crashing pfSense. Maybe a power issue i dunno. Console was locked up at Atheros reset lock warning…..
First box i haven't been able to get working natively.

Same box -Slipped in a Mikrotik RB14eu (4mini-PCIe on a X4 PCIe card) And the first wireless AR9xxx card I tested worked fine.

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